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by c8d3f7b49897918 3025 days ago
A daily reminder that the US spends more per-capita on socialized medicine than any other country except Norway, and spends more on socialized medicine per capita than many first world countries (e.g. france, australia, japan) spend on medicine in total, both public and private. [1]

Conservatives (I am a conservative) who say we have a free market system are wrong. Liberals who say we are too heartless to pay for a socialized medical system are wrong. Anyone who says our military spending is why we don't have public healthcare is wrong. Anyone who suggests the US is competent enough at public administration to implement a public health care system is also probably wrong.

Collapse appears to be the only way out.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...